Great Quotes from Great Leaders

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I couldn't agree more! Since I was a freshman in college, I've loved quotations. The right words can engage the brain and bring an idea to life. With quotes, I've had many "a-ha" moments, where I've read it and thought, "Wow, that's exactly how I feel!" Find more quotes,Great Quotes from Great Leaders with FREE DVD

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This extraordinary book will be a source of inspiration and knowledge for many years to come. It is a beautiful coffee table edition with 160 pages, 75 wonderful photographs and over 400 great quotations from leaders in all walks of life.

Today I'd like to share a few of my favorite quotes from some of my favorite leaders in this book. Enjoy!

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."Henry Ford(1863-1947)

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."Mother Teresa(1910-1997)

"If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail."Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."Nelson Mandela(1918 - )"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."Vince Lombardi(1913-1970)

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles have strengthened me...You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."Walt Disney(1901-1966)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."Eleanor Roosevelt(1884-1962)

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948)

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will eventually triumph. And there is purpose and worth to each and every life."Ronald Reagan(1911-2004)

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."John F. Kennedy(1917-1963)

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."Ray Kroc(1902-1984)

"The time is always right to do what is right."Martin Luther King, Jr.(1929-1968)

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."Booker T. Washington(1856-1915)

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919)

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."Albert Schweitzer(1875-1965)

"There is only one boss. The customer. And they can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending their money somewhere else."Sam Walton(1918-1992)

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."John Wooden(1910 - 2010)

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."Helen Keller(1880-1968)

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Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown

Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~Robert Jarvik

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ~Tom Peters

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell

A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ~Mark Brouwer

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani

A leader leads by example not by Force. ~Sun Tzu

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt

He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O.
~W.S. Gilbert

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi

We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school? ~Henry Mintzberg

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~Tony Blair

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~Anne Bradstreet

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ~Lee Iacocca

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs

To lead the people, walk behind them. ~Lao-Tzu

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer